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May
India’s IT Rules, 2021: Incompatible with the ICCPR and a Fatal Blow to Democratic Discourse
Raghav Mendiratta is a lawyer and a Legal Fellow at the Future of Free Speech project (Justitia and Columbia University). @raghav_mendirat Photo: Rajya Sabha TV As per the recently released Freedom House Freedom Report, India has now been demoted to ‘Partly Free’ from the ‘Free’ category. Civil liberties and free expression have seen a slow but steady breakdown in India over the last few years. A particularly...